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At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex...

Examines how the Allies came to terms with how a 'civilised' nation like Germany could perpetrate the crimes of WWII and sought to bring them back to the Western fold. Priemel shows that while many German institutions, which were ostensibly similar to their Allied counterparts, had been corrupted even before Hitler's rise to power.

"Der Flick-Konzern steht wie kein anderes Unternehmen fur die enge Verbindung zwischen Wirtschaft und NS-Regime. Sein Wachstum wurde wahrend des Dritten Reiches von kaum einem Unternehmen ubertroffen. Er profitierte in groem Ausma von "Arisierungen," war einer der bedeutendsten Rustungsproduzenten und beschaftigte zehntausende Zwangsarbeiter. Die Fuhrungsfiguren des Konzerns wurden dafur vor dem Internationalen Militartribunal in Nurnberg zur Verantwortung gezogen und verurteilt. Die Autoren legen die okonomische Strategie dieses Unternehmens offen, analysieren seine internen Strukturen und...